Elon Musk’s Twitter has dropped the labels “government-funded” or “state-affiliated” from several media corporations, including the CBC.
Nevertheless, calling the CBC government-funded is merely stating the obvious. Last year, the Canadian government provided over $1 billion in funding to the CBC, or about 70 percent of annual operating costs. But as Edward R. Murrow famously observed, “The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.”
